"1. Restrictive licenses make it more difficult to reasonably deploy than any competing technology in a linux environment."
Pretty meaningless comment, unless you can supply some examples. I've done consulting and development for a number of large, lawyer heavy organizations, and none of them had a problem deploying Java solutions on linux. None.
"2. JVM is fat fat fat, it uses way more RAM than is reasonable."
Sadly uninformed, probably due to severe lack of experience with large applications. Per example, a couple of years ago I worked in a team that bid on and developed an application that, in a nutshell, receives up to 20Megs per sec of market data, breaks it up into itty-bitty messages, and then makes it available to any number of subscribing clients. Call it a proxy, if you will. We developed the app in pure Java, using the new NIO functionality. We competed with another team who started out in C, moved to C++ midway through, and were barely in a position to go alplha when we were ready to deploy. The client, since they were paying and had a lot of anti-Java staff, insisted on waiting, even though the delivery date had long since passed.
When they finally had something to show, the apps were launched on identical hardware, and allowed to run 24/7. Our app ran smoothly, uninterrupted (except for a blown network interface) for the duration of the test. The other team had to restart their app several times a day, resulting in unnacceptable outages. Their restart time was, likewise, poor. Their app required 2Gigs to run. Ours ran happily under a Gig.
The client paid both teams for their efforts, then licensed our solution.
I have pretty much the same sw/hw profile, and I can tell you that investing in multiple power bricks was totally worthwhile. I picked 2 up on eBay for the price of 1 brand new. I keep one in my backpack so that I don't forget to take one along when I'm on the road for a few days. Makes for a heavy backpack, but being able to put the laptop down and be running in a minute beats crawling around under desks and worrying that repeated rolling is going to kill the proprietary plug.
It takes more effort and man hours to customise and install these products than is does to write an equivalent system inhouse, and, then you pay license fees.
Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. I've installed complete PeopleSoft systems, including creating DB2 and/or Oracle DB backends, in less than a day. And I'm not even a PeopleSoft guru, just a techie who did some training.
Writing a complete system, to do everything that one of these products does, would take a considerable amount of time.
Which is not to say that I'm a fan of these behemoths - I just have to share the ecosystem with them.
Once again, you're mangling history. The war Iraq got into with Iran was encouraged by the US. And the US profitted by covertly supporting both sides. Read some history books instead of watching FOX.
Presumably you were clamouring to have him removed when he gassing Kurds and slaughtering Iranian youth? Probably not...
The issues is not whether freedom/democaracy or whatever is established in Iraq. Like most people opposed to the war in Iraq, I'm opposed to any sort of political killing. But it is amazing to see how Saddam's evilness only became an issue when GWB needed a reason to invade. Prior to that it was business as usual. Before you invade a country or try to influence the future, you should understand the present. Islam is in a dangerous phase right now, and understanding it and how to influence its context makes a whole lot more sense than just marching into a country without a strategy and expecting to win.
If you really know what's going on in Iraq, answer this question: how many civilians have died since March 2003?
And of course, you might even check with what the people there, and in Afghanistan think. They are among the most optimistic people in the world about their economies and their futures.
Hmmm. When your hopes and your country have hit rock bottom, the only possible way to look is up. Even surviving to tomorrow becomes an optimistic action.
Also, while you're mangling history, keep in mind that the war was started supposedly to eliminate WMD's (which your government knew did not exist) and not to improve the lives of women and "daughters". Just be honest... the thousands of innocent Iraqi dead will thank you for it.
Have you tried running your app with -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC?
This will allow the vm to do small amounts of gc whenever it has a chance, as opposed to wating until an allocation request will fail and then running through the entire heap.
Our app runs 24/7 and while the markets are open and 10meg+ of raw data is coming down the line every second, we can't allow the app to take a timeout for a gc run. The app runs in 256meg, too.
Since your mom is probably busy cooking your supper, you might give her a few points. Plus,while you were at "work" she probably scrubbed the racing stripes out of your undies. There's some mixins for ya.
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And I just threw out my MVS and POP manuals...
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You say its not very machine-friendly... which machines did you ask, and what did they say?
If I have this straight, you want a machine-friendly language that is also human-friendly. Since you can't have both, why not convert a machine into a human, or a human into a machine? Then use the appropriate format langauge.
Yes, the Europans moved there when global warming rendered life impossible on their own planet.
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I recently completed my first batch of home distilled vodka and, frankly, it was great. The yield was excellent, and my home made still worked fine. I even have some pics of the rig.
I ran half of the completed product through a carbon filter, and it seemd to improve the smoothness. Maybe. We had a few merry evenings with the stuff, and no nasty hangovers.
I'll be kicking off the next batch soon. Long live SuperYeast!
Well, its simple. You have an automated user that grinds the product up. You know all of the calls that can be made to (and within) the product, so you call them repeatedly with a variety of inputs. Its pretty simple to inspect the code and find out where unchecked buffers are located. At least, where I work it is. Maybe its harder on that platform.
I can't help wondering why it is that with all the monstrous resources Microsoft has at its disposal, IE still has buffer overflows. Do they have test beds? Do they have code reviews?
I don't get to use any of their products, but I'm still curious.
Where I work we rip each other's code to shreds, so its a bit embarrassing to put something crappy in front of the team. And we a lot of complex network code, just in case you were wondering...
The thing I always liked about VB was that it enabled my boss to get his 12-year-old to write an app that almost did something useful. Then he installed it and required everyone to use it. When it failed because of poor file locking, arbitrary array limit choices (try 53) and other CS101 gambits, it became my problem (with no windows background) to fix.
Actually, it's quite simple, folks. Vote for the candidate with the most useful, coherent ideas - who also stands a chance of winning. In this case, its a very simple decision: Bush is a moron, Kerry is sorta ok.
The only problem with this method is people - when the majority are idiots, you get what the idiots want.
No voting methodologies will protect you from idiots.
In Canada the company doesn't pick up the salary tab, the state does. That's why we pay high taxes. Of course, it does mean that we get to bond better with our kids.
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Let's not forget Data General. Remember "The Soul of a New Machine"?
Pretty meaningless comment, unless you can supply some examples. I've done consulting and development for a number of large, lawyer heavy organizations, and none of them had a problem deploying Java solutions on linux. None.
"2. JVM is fat fat fat, it uses way more RAM than is reasonable."
Sadly uninformed, probably due to severe lack of experience with large applications. Per example, a couple of years ago I worked in a team that bid on and developed an application that, in a nutshell, receives up to 20Megs per sec of market data, breaks it up into itty-bitty messages, and then makes it available to any number of subscribing clients. Call it a proxy, if you will. We developed the app in pure Java, using the new NIO functionality. We competed with another team who started out in C, moved to C++ midway through, and were barely in a position to go alplha when we were ready to deploy. The client, since they were paying and had a lot of anti-Java staff, insisted on waiting, even though the delivery date had long since passed. When they finally had something to show, the apps were launched on identical hardware, and allowed to run 24/7. Our app ran smoothly, uninterrupted (except for a blown network interface) for the duration of the test. The other team had to restart their app several times a day, resulting in unnacceptable outages. Their restart time was, likewise, poor. Their app required 2Gigs to run. Ours ran happily under a Gig.
The client paid both teams for their efforts, then licensed our solution.
So, my quesion then is, where's the fat?
I have pretty much the same sw/hw profile, and I can tell you that investing in multiple power bricks was totally worthwhile. I picked 2 up on eBay for the price of 1 brand new. I keep one in my backpack so that I don't forget to take one along when I'm on the road for a few days. Makes for a heavy backpack, but being able to put the laptop down and be running in a minute beats crawling around under desks and worrying that repeated rolling is going to kill the proprietary plug.
Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. I've installed complete PeopleSoft systems, including creating DB2 and/or Oracle DB backends, in less than a day. And I'm not even a PeopleSoft guru, just a techie who did some training.
Writing a complete system, to do everything that one of these products does, would take a considerable amount of time.
Which is not to say that I'm a fan of these behemoths - I just have to share the ecosystem with them.
Presumably you were clamouring to have him removed when he gassing Kurds and slaughtering Iranian youth? Probably not...
The issues is not whether freedom/democaracy or whatever is established in Iraq. Like most people opposed to the war in Iraq, I'm opposed to any sort of political killing. But it is amazing to see how Saddam's evilness only became an issue when GWB needed a reason to invade. Prior to that it was business as usual. Before you invade a country or try to influence the future, you should understand the present. Islam is in a dangerous phase right now, and understanding it and how to influence its context makes a whole lot more sense than just marching into a country without a strategy and expecting to win.
If you really know what's going on in Iraq, answer this question: how many civilians have died since March 2003?
Hmmm. When your hopes and your country have hit rock bottom, the only possible way to look is up. Even surviving to tomorrow becomes an optimistic action.
Also, while you're mangling history, keep in mind that the war was started supposedly to eliminate WMD's (which your government knew did not exist) and not to improve the lives of women and "daughters". Just be honest... the thousands of innocent Iraqi dead will thank you for it.
40, and just finished kicking some young butt at SOCOM on the PSP. Finally, my army days are paying off...
I guess that makes you a gambler. Nice.
This will allow the vm to do small amounts of gc whenever it has a chance, as opposed to wating until an allocation request will fail and then running through the entire heap.
Our app runs 24/7 and while the markets are open and 10meg+ of raw data is coming down the line every second, we can't allow the app to take a timeout for a gc run. The app runs in 256meg, too.
Imagine having time enough to read all these methodology books? But, if that were the case, I'd probably waste it snowboarding or something...
Since your mom is probably busy cooking your supper, you might give her a few points. Plus,while you were at "work" she probably scrubbed the racing stripes out of your undies. There's some mixins for ya.
And I just threw out my MVS and POP manuals...
If I have this straight, you want a machine-friendly language that is also human-friendly. Since you can't have both, why not convert a machine into a human, or a human into a machine? Then use the appropriate format langauge.
Yes, the Europans moved there when global warming rendered life impossible on their own planet.
I ran half of the completed product through a carbon filter, and it seemd to improve the smoothness. Maybe. We had a few merry evenings with the stuff, and no nasty hangovers.
I'll be kicking off the next batch soon. Long live SuperYeast!
Well, its simple. You have an automated user that grinds the product up. You know all of the calls that can be made to (and within) the product, so you call them repeatedly with a variety of inputs. Its pretty simple to inspect the code and find out where unchecked buffers are located. At least, where I work it is. Maybe its harder on that platform.
I don't get to use any of their products, but I'm still curious.
Where I work we rip each other's code to shreds, so its a bit embarrassing to put something crappy in front of the team. And we a lot of complex network code, just in case you were wondering...
Believe me, she's more trouble than she's worth...
Do we really need a VB clone in linuxland?
The email looked so bogus that I figured it must be a phishing attack. But I checked out the urls, and sure enough...
The only problem with this method is people - when the majority are idiots, you get what the idiots want.
No voting methodologies will protect you from idiots.
In Canada the company doesn't pick up the salary tab, the state does. That's why we pay high taxes. Of course, it does mean that we get to bond better with our kids.
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you might be thinking of ingres... recently open-sourced by ca.